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Vaccine Side Effects — What the Databases Report

Index of routine and travel vaccines with category-level adverse-event breakdowns from public pharmacovigilance systems. Reporting rates are not causation; sources and limitations are stated on every page.

Beyond VAERS

Routine schedules for every vaccine on this page across 31 national immunization programs, and FDA FAERS disproportionality signals for ~3,600 prescription drugs in OpenPV (with a causality assessment of the clearest signals).

How to read these pages

Each link below opens a vaccine-specific evidence page with VAERS symptom-category charts, international mirrors (VigiAccess, Lareb, DAEN, Canada Vigilance, JADER, EudraVigilance where available), clinical trial reactogenicity, and graded documented adverse events. This is a data navigator — we show what regulators and reporters filed, not whether a vaccine caused an injury.

Routine & travel vaccines (database reports)

Search topic Evidence page Data included
HPV vaccine side effectsHPV VaccineVAERS, VigiAccess, Lareb, DAEN
Tdap / DTaP vaccine side effects ↑228%DTaP / TdapVAERS, multi-system charts
MMR vaccine side effectsMMR VaccineVAERS, Lareb, VigiAccess
RSV vaccine side effectsRSV (Arexvy / Abrysvo / Beyfortus)VAERS lots, trial data
Shingles vaccine side effects ↑39%Shingles (Shingrix)VAERS lots
Pneumonia vaccine side effects ↑824%Pneumococcal (PCV)VAERS dose-adjusted rates
Meningitis vaccine side effects ↑57%MeningococcalVAERS, Canada Vigilance
Typhoid vaccine side effectsTyphoidVAERS, VigiAccess
BCG (tuberculosis) vaccine side effectsBCGWHO guidance, schedule data
Rabies vaccine side effectsRabiesVAERS, case literature
Hep B vaccine side effectsHepatitis BVAERS, EudraVigilance
Polio vaccine side effectsPolio (IPV)VAERS, JADER
Yellow fever vaccine side effectsYellow FeverVAERS, VigiAccess
Hep A vaccine side effectsHepatitis AVAERS, EU cases
Flu vaccine side effectsInfluenzaVAERS (high volume)
Chickenpox vaccine side effectsVaricellaVAERS, MMRV context
Rotavirus vaccine side effectsRotavirusintussusception signal
Hib vaccine side effectsHibVAERS categories
Cholera / JE vaccine side effectsCholera · JEtravel vaccines

COVID vaccines & boosters

Higher competition keywords (Pfizer, Moderna, updated boosters, long-term follow-up). Our COVID page covers VAERS reports, lot-level drill-down, and international mirrors.

COVID vaccine side effects — VAERS, Pfizer & Moderna data →

Vaccines in development

About 320 candidate and recently approved vaccines from ClinicalTrials.gov and FDA approval records, filterable by disease, developer, platform and stage, with a page for each developer. Company timelines are labelled separately from regulator-confirmed status.

Vaccine development pipeline — candidates by disease, developer and stage →

Data-seeker tools (VAERS, lots, databases)

For researchers, journalists, and patients pulling their own reports — the differentiator from generic health articles.

Part of the Open Source Medicine Foundation Network

Open Source Medicine Foundation

Home of the OSMF network — open-source pharmacovigilance tools and evidence-based medicine resources.

Research Tracker

Track peer-reviewed literature on vaccine safety, pharmacovigilance, and post-market surveillance.

Evidence Desk

Soft launch — provisional claim grades; not medical advice. Does not contain vaccine lot or VAERS data.

SpikeProtein.site

Comprehensive resource on spike protein biology, biodistribution, and clinical implications.

VitalScan4PACVS

Decentralized trial for PACVS (post-acute COVID-19 vaccination syndrome).

PACVS Research Summit

Weekly seminar series for researchers and clinicians studying post-acute COVID-19 vaccination syndrome.